Raid 0 array/recovery and breaking

[cl8855]

2 questions - one I posted in "data recovery" forum as well (at the bottom):

First question is - How to I break a Raid 0 array to just go back to using my drives "normally" - no Raid?

Like someone else mentioned, ghost says they don't really support Raid, so I am worried my images won't work.

Second question:
"OK, no one in my other forums seems to know much about recovering RAID, so here's my question:

I have a Raid 0 Array (2X30GB hd) where one of the drives is going bad. I was able to boot once and I backed up some key files and tried to ghost the main partition, but Ghost says it doesn't truly support Raid arrays.

Anyway, one of my error messages in my Raid controller said I could "replicate" the drive. So that's my question, can I just use the raid controller's replicate utility (like for mirroring) to replicate the drive while it is still good, then replace the almost bad drive with the replicant?"

 

[misterpops]

1. First of all. RAID 0 isn't used for a robust need. It's used for perfomance. You just add risks to get a disk failure. If you really want to use two (2) spindles, you need a RAID 0 + a RAID1 of your RAID 0. So this is commonly called a RAID 0+1 or RAID10 (need at least 4 disks)
or also for less performance but good availability, use RAID5. At least 3 disks.

The problem with your ghost is not for creating the image.....it's when you want to restore it.

I've personally used many times Acronis True image 6 and it works very well. You don't need to reboot in a DOS mode to activate the creation of your environment. You simply install, reboot and you create your image whenever you want, live, in your production environment